Announcing Our 23-24 Season
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Admissions
by Joshua Harmon Directed by Bob Robinson Sept. 14-17 & 21-24, 2023 Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values, with convulsive results. A no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of hypocrisy. |
The Rocky Horror Show
by Richard O’Brien Directed by Shannon Bowen & Erin Hoffman Oct. 19-21 & 26-28, 2023 A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank-N-Furter. |
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Trail to Oregon
by Nick & Matt Lang, Brian Holden & Jeff Blim Directed by Ayden Soupal Nov. 9-12 & 16-19, 2023 Black Box Staage The musical parodies the video game series The Oregon Trail. The characters' names are picked from suggestions shouted from the audience, and at the end the audience chooses the fate of one of the characters. |
Christmas Belles
by Jones, Hope & Wooten Directed by Kate Clark Dec. 7-10 & 14-17, 2023 A church Christmas program spins hilariously out of control in this Southern farce about squabbling sisters, family secrets, a surly Santa, a vengeful sheep and a reluctant Elvis impersonator. |
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The Exonerated
by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen Directed by Alan Greenberg Feb. 15-18 & 22-25, 2024 Black Box Stage The stories of five men and a woman, all of whom were wrongly sentenced to death for murders that they did not commit. Between them, they spent over 100 years on Death Row watching their fellow inmates frying in the electric chair, while awaiting their own imminent deaths. |
Amadeus
by Peter Shaffer Directed by Amy Rickett March 14-17 & 21-24, 2024 A fictional account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, first performed in 1979. It was inspired by Alexander Pushkin's short 1830 play Mozart and Salieri |
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Moonglow
by Kim Carney Directed by Emily Clark April 11-14 & 18-21, 2024 Black Box Stage Maxine, a feisty, bitter Alzheimer's victim, doesn't want to move into a nursing facility. But when she meets Joe, a widower who shares her love for dance, her outlook begins to change. Although the two clash when lucid, their hazy memories overlap, and they begin an affair that rejuvenates and fulfills them. But can these lovers -- played simultaneously by an elderly twosome and a young, vivacious couple -- stay together despite their families' wishes and their fading vitality? |
TBD
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